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Rashida Tlaib: “Carbon dioxide is a natural occurring, nontoxic, and beneficial gas, and it poses no direct threat to the public health.”

On the recordApril 8, 2019
Carbon dioxide is a natural occurring, nontoxic, and beneficial gas, and it poses no direct threat to the public health.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

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Rashida Tlaib criticizes misleading statements about carbon dioxide.

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